This is fine.

Twilight directed by Del Toro would actually be worth a watch.

Could that Watson computer host? Is that inviting the apocalypse?

I just got teared up watching the trailer. After seeing it live, I had to explain to my daughter why I kept crying. She was born in 2002.

I loved that number. 

I saw this in DC before it went to Broadway. Absolutely loved it. My daughter played the songs constantly for a while.

I’ve been working on some classics. I finished “The Naked and the Dead” (outstanding!) earlier this month and now I’m in the middle of “All the King’s Men”.

I don’t think a new term is required, certainly not a pejorative one. Using other investigative works as your source is fine in journalism and in many forms of writing.

I have noticed a ridiculous amount of plagiarism in online journalism of late, including in sites like Slate. Their recent article on that guy who killed his two children with a spear gun because he thought they had snake DNA was nearly word-for-word identical to another article they linked.

I compared the two articles, and there does not seem to be word for word copying. Buzzfeed is a source, and the link constitutes a citation in this context. If this was a student paper, Iwould not refer them to the Honor Council.

A lot of criticism is about the central premise. Not all premises work. Sometimes high concept is crappy concept. That said, my offhand comment (written from my point of view as a medical school professor) is generating far more serious discussion than I anticipated.

Oh, and the stupidest thing about Doogie Howser was not the idea that a 16 year old could be a practicing physician. It’s that he decided to use the nickname “Doogie” professionally. He would have started suing his real name, Douglas, or maybe Doug. Still, I’ll give it a pass because it gave us NPH.

I skipped two grades, but that was back in the 70s, early 80s. Even with that, I still started college just after turning 16, not tremendously different than my peers (although I don’t recommend it).

Started residency at 18.

Those things are purely fantastical. But I do have to say that it’s pretty shitty when a team gets a friggin’ dog to be their ringer in some sport, and it’s usually a kids team, which makes it worse. That’s just cheating, and it sends the message that the team should do whatever they can to win (even manipulate and…

I would switch so that a parent and child could sit together on an airplane, but a couple of grown-ass adults? No.

And even if they had the emotional development, there are just legal issues. You can’t trust patient care to someone who is not a legally responsible entity. This person can’t even sign their name on a release form to go zip lining, let alone sign off on a prescription.

I suppose I have gotten old and literal, but you can’t actually practice medicine before you are a legal adult, no matter how smart you are.

Saw it last night with my 19 year old daughter. I liked it. She did not. Pull quote: “That got an R for violence? There was not that much violence.” I have an extensive knowledge of Arthurian lore, she does not. She also struggles with the pre-modern method of story telling in which a lot of stuff just sort of…

That’s not Chip’s (Charles Esten’s) real name.